RESEARCH TEAM AND HISTORY
University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine
DR. LEE ANN LYONS
I-TICK COORDINATOR, GRADUATE STUDENT
PEG GRONEMEYER
I-TICK COORDINATOR, SPATIAL ECOLOGIST
WILLIAM BROWN
GIS LAB MANAGER
Heather Kopsco
POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER
FIKRIYAH WINATA
GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Sulagna Chakraborty
GRADUATE STUDENT
Ellie Bacon
U OF I VETERINARY SUMMER RESEARCH TRAINEE
Samantha Crist
MCE-VBD RESEARCH FELLOW
Dawn Carson
GRADUATE STUDENT, MPH PROGRAM JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
Elly Uruchima
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Lianne Gao
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Jonathan Tinoco
MCE – VBD RESEARCH FELLOW
Illinois Natural History Survey- Prairie Research Institute
Illinois Department of Public Health
SAMANTHA DEBOSIK
PUBLIC SERVICE ADMINISTRATOR
APRIL HOLMES
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SPECIALIST III
Funding
based at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Developers
DR. MARILYN O’HARA RUIZ
DR. NOHRA MATEUS-PINILLA
Previous Student Researchers
BENNETT LAMCZYK
DVM CANDIDATE 2021, RESEARCH ASSISTANT, SOCIAL MEDIA CO-DIRECTOR
SERENA SCHATZ
MCE-VBD RESEARCH FELLOW
ALVYN HERNANDEZ REYES
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT, SOCIAL MEDIA CO-DIRECTOR
